365/2013 - Day 195

working on plaster cloth

I started the afternoon with thinking about what my next hand sewn guy would be.  I tried to draw a couple of sketches in the sketch book that Leann made.  

I think I would like to make the arms and legs have big buttons on them so that they can be interchangeable.

Later, I was thinking about a couple of possible submissions for upcoming shows.  I am not going to say which ones because I might end up not submitting anything after all...but I want to work on a few plaster cloth guys that have been waiting patiently.
 

This is the guy with the long horns that I started papering, but then I found that one of his fingers was cracked at the bottom and needed to be strengthened.  It was the second finger up from the bottom on the right.

Once I started working on that one finger I figured I'd like to even all of the fingers and thumbs out and then smooth out the arms.

Here is how he turned out so far.

Later on I went back into Studio B to look at this guy a little more.  

Then I realized why I didn't like him as much as when I first started him...he doesn't have enough of a face.  I wadded up a plastic bag that was on the table to try to give him a chin...something to work with, anyway.

It is hard to capture what exactly it is that I am seeing.

He's starting to get a little more of a personality...I'm not sure this is the end of adding to him, though.

The camera doesn't "see" what I see...odd lighting in that room with the skylight.  Also, I think I will clean that stuff off of his eyes.

That's a bit better...

Another view.

I like him more already...but I know he isn't done yet.

And now that I've been away from this guy for a little while I can't decide if I like those stubby hands and arms for him.  Maybe they need to be cut off after they dry...maybe he needs longer, thinner arms and longer, thinner fingers...

2012/365 - Day 297

quick blog entry

I have to post this quickly because the plaster cloth is setting up fast and I have to get back to it -- but I also needed to post this before midnight.  

I will probably come back later and edit. (update:  it is now just a little after 3 a.m. -- I will blog the rest of tonight's progress tomorrow.)

2012/365 - Day 154

decompressing a bit

I have been so wound up the last couple of days.  Today I am just trying to decompress a bit by tackling the mountain of laundry, the sink FULL of dishes and working on this little guy some more.

Because the white tissue paper was very wet and transparent when I was working on this guy a few days ago, I didn't notice how much of the white paper I'd actually applied to the surface.   Waaaay too much it turned out.

Most of his colored spots were buried so deep you could hardly see them anymore.  I wanted to make them less noticeable, but not that much.

Today I am trying to give him back a few "random" color dots and also mark where his eyes will probably be.

Whoa -- I really lost a LOT of his dots!

This is just an idea of where his eyes will probably be, but they won't look like they do here.

This guy is starting to get some personality I think.

I will "bury" these dots, too...but not as deeply.